Intelligent Mobile Recommendations for Exhibitions Using Indoor Location Services

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are utilized in an increasing number of museums and collection exhibitions world-wide. In this chapter, we present novel fully-automatic mobile assistant with indoor recommendation services. We will discuss novel efficient techniques in order to provide within a single software solution (a) typical, (b) semi automatic and (c) seamless-no human interaction tour guidance and recommendations during an exhibition tour. We have designed, developed, deployed and evaluated the solution at a real case exhibition to provide at a users’ level an intelligent personalized virtual guide. The provided solution aims to assist visitors and to provide full automatic multimedia or audio guidance during exhibition visits using Wi-Fi based indoor and outdoor positioning, mobile messaging and wireless data provisioning. In the proposed chapter we will discuss the design, implementation, deployment and outcomes of the research and development endeavor for the integration of mobile multimedia, positioning and messaging services into a novel automatic personalized exhibition recommender-assistant. Deployment and evaluation issues of the proposed solution will be discussed for the case of the Museum “Digital Exhibition of History of Olympic Games in Antiquity” in Ancient Olympia (Greece, EU).